Tech-X Staff Publications

For research published before 2000, please see our list of older publications.

2008

• Cowan, Benjamin M. Three-dimensional dielectric photonic crystal structures for laser-driven acceleration. Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 11, 011301 (2008).
• Cetiner, S. O., P. Stoltz, P. Messmer, and J.-L. Cambier. "Dependence of electron peak current on hollow cathode dimensions and seed electron energy in a pseudospark discharge." J. Appl. Phys. 103, 023304 (2008), DOI:10.1063/1.2832507
• Hakim, Ammar H. "Extended MHD modelling with the ten-moment equations", Journal of Fusion Energy, vol 27, No 1-2, June 2008.
• Karoly Nemeth, Baifei Shen, Yuelin Li, Robert Crowell, Katherine C. Harkay, and John R. Cary, “Laser driven coherent betatron oscillation in a laser-wakefield cavity,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 095002 (2008), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.095002.
• Stoltz, Peter H., Brian Granger, Ammar Hakim, Scott W. Sides and Seth A. Veitzer. "Effects of Sputtering of and Radiation by Aluminium on Magnetized Target Fusion Plasmas", Journal of Fusion Energy, vol 27, No 1-2, June 2008
• Tan, C. Y. and V. H. Ranjbar. Analytic approximation of the head-tail phase difference from continuous transverse excitation for measuring chromaticity. Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 11, 032802 (2008).
• Xiang, Nong and John R. Cary. Second-Harmonic Generation of Electron-Bernstein Waves in an Inhomogeneous Plasma. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 085002 (2008).

2007

• J. R. Cary and N. Xiang, “Wave excitation in inhomogeneous dielectric media,” Phys. Rev. E 76, 055401(R) (2007).
• Dimitrov, R. E. Giacone, D. L. Bruhwiler, R. Busby, J. R. Cary, C. G. R. Geddes, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans. "Coupling of laser energy into plasma channels." Phys. Plasmas 14, 043105 (2007)
• I. Doxas, C. Nieter, D. C. Radford, K. Lagergren, John R. Cary, “An Approximate Method for Linear Signal Decomposition in Gamma-ray Tracking Detectors,” Nuc. Inst. Meth. 580, 1331-1337 (2007).
• Jerome Lauret, David Alexander, Valeri Fine, Chuang Li, "User Centric Monitoring (UCM) information service for the next generation of Grid-enabled scientists", International Conference for Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2007), Victoria, British Columbia, September 2007.
• F. Perez and B. E. Granger, IPython: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing, Comput. Sci. Eng. 9 32 (2007).
• Svetlana G. Shasharina, Chuang Li, Nanbor Wang, Rooparani Pundaleeka, David Wade-Stein, "Distributed Technologies for Remote Access of HDF Data", In proceeding of 16th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2007), June 18-20, Paris, France, p. 255-260."

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• S. Shasharina, N.Wang, S. Muszala, R. Pundaleeka, "Grid and Component Technologies in Physics Applications," proceedings of ICALEPCS 2007, October 15-19, 2007, Knoxville, TN.

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• Baifei Shen, Yuelin Li, Karoly Nemeth, Hairong Shang, Robert Soliday, Robert Crowell, Edward Frank, William Gropp, and John Cary, “Triggering wave breaking in a laser plasma bubble by a nanowire,” Phys. Plasmas 14, 053115 (2007).
• Baifei Shen, Yuelin Li, M. Y. Yu, and John Cary, “Bubble regime for ion acceleration in a laser driven plasma,” Phys. Rev. E 76, 055402 (2007).
• Seth A. Veitzer, Peter H. Stoltz, John J. Barnard, "Evolution of the energy distribution of ions moving in aluminum targets", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A, v. 577 (2007), 207-210, doi:10.1016/j.nima.2007.02.089.
• S. A. Veitzer and P. H. Stoltz, "Simulations of electron generation and dynamics in a hollow cathode with applied magnetic field", Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. in Physics Research Section B, v. 261, (2007), 204-208, doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2007.04.291.
• Nanbor Wang, Roopa Pundaleeka, Johan Carlson. "Distributed Component Support for Integrating Large-scale parallel HPC Applications," CompFrame 2007 (2007).
• G. R. Werner and J. R. Cary, “A Stable FDTD Algorithm for Non-diagonal, Anisotropic Dielectrics,” J. Comp. Phys. 226, 1085-1101 (2007), doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2007.05.008.

2006

• David A. Alexander, Balamurali Ananthan, Tony Johnson, Victor Serbo, "Framework for Interactive Parallel Dataset Analysis on the Grid," icppw, pp. 419-425, 2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW'06), 2006.
• Alexander, David A., Balamurali Ananthan, Tony Johnson, Victor Serbo, "Framework for Interactive Parallel Dataset Analysis on the Grid", ICPP Workshops 2006: pg 419-425
• Dimirov, D. A., J. Heflin, and A. Qasem and N. Wang, "Information Integration Via an End-to-End Distributed Semantic Web System", 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006), 4273 (2006)
• Hakim, J. Loverich, and U. Shumlak, "High Resolution Wave Propagation Scheme for Ideal Two-Fluid Plasma Equations," Journal of Computational Physics 219 (1), 418-442 (2006).
• Messmer, P. and R. Bodenner, "Accelerating Scientific Aplications Using FPGAs", Xcell (57), 70, 2006.
• Messmer, P., D. Smithe, P. Schoessow, R. Bodenner, "FPGA accelerated Finite-Difference Time-Domain Simulation on the Cray XD1 using Impulse C," Proceeedings of the Cray Users Group Meeting, CUG 2006, 2006
• Xiang, Nong, John R. Cary, Daniel C. Barnes, and Johan Carlsson, "Low-noise electromagnetic deltaf particle-in-cell simulation of electron Bernstein waves", Phys. Plasmas 13, 062111 (2006).
• A.V. Fedotov, D.L. Bruhwiler, A.O. Sidorin, D.T. Abell, I. Ben-Zvi, R. Busby, J.R. Cary and V.N. Litvinenko, "Numerical study of the magnetized friction force", Phys. Rev. ST/AB 9, 074401 (2006).
• Sides, S. W., B. J. Kim, E. J. Kramer and G. H. Fredrickson. "Hybrid Particle-Field Simulations of Polymer Nanocomposites." Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 250601 (2006).
• Stoltz, P. H., J. P. Verboncoeur, R. H. Cohen, A. W. Molvik, J.-L. Vay, and S. A. Veitzer. "Modeling ion-induced electrons in the High Current Experiment", Phys. Plasmas 13, 056702 (2006)
•  Abell, Dan T. "Numerical Computation of High-Order Transfer Maps for RF Cavities", Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 9, 052001 (2006)
•  Messmer, Peter and David L. Bruhwiler. "Simulating laser pulse propagation and low-frequency wave emission in capillary plasma channel systems with a ponderomotive guiding center model", Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 9, 031302 (2006)

2005

•  Shasharina, Svetlana G., Ovsei Volberg, Peter Stoltz and Seth Veitzer, "GRIDL: High-Performance and Distributed Interactive Data Language," (from poster at The 14th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing -- HPDC-14, 2005).
• Paesold, G., E.G. Blackman and P. Messmer, 'On particle acceleration and trapping by Poynting flux dominated flows', Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 47, No. 11, 1925-1947, 2005.
• P. Messmer, 'Electromagnetic Simulations of Dusty Plasmas', Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3732, 583, 2005.
•  Shasharina, Svetlana G. and Chuang Li. "FSML: Fusion Simulation Markup Language for Interoperability of Data and Analysis tools", Proceedings of Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, pp.115-121, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, July 24, 2005. (Presentation slides relating to this paper are  also available.)
• Kruger, S.E., D.D. Schnack, and C. R. Sovinec. "Dynamics of a Major Disruption of a DIII-D Plasma," (from invited talk at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Savannah, GA 12 (056113) May 2005.
• Chandra, D., A. Sen, P. Kaw, M.P. Bora, and S.E. Kruger. "Effect of Sheared Flows on Classical and Neoclassical Tearing Modes," Nuclear Fusion, 45 (524) 2005.
• Kruger, S.E., C. R. Sovinec, D.D. Schnack, and E. D. Held. "Free-boundary Simulations of DIII-D Plasmas with the NIMROD Code," Computer Physics Communications, 164 (34) 2004.
• Stoltz, P. H.; Veitzer, S. A.; Cohen, R. H.; Molvik, A. W.; Vay, J. L. "Energy Loss, Range, and Electron Yield Comparisons of the CRANGE Ion-Material Interaction Code". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, v. 544 (2005), p. 502-505.
• C. G. R. Geddes, Cs. Toth, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, J. Cary, and W. P. Leemans, "Guiding of relativistic laser pulses by preformed plasma channels," Phys. Rev. Lett. (2005) in review.
• K. Sonnad and J. R. Cary, "Control of beam halo formation through nonlinear damping and collimation," Phys. Rev. ST/AB 8, 064202 (2005).
• C. G. R. Geddes, Cs. Toth, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, D. Bruhwiler, C. Nieter, J. Cary, and W. P. Leemans, "Production of high-quality electron bunches by dephasing and beam loading in channeled and unchanneled laser plasma accelerators," Phys. Plasmas 12 (5), 056709 (2005).
• J. R. Cary, R. Giacone, C. Nieter, D. L. Bruhwiler, "Clean beams from optical injection with a cleanup pulse," Phys. Plasmas 12 (5), 056704 (2005).
• J. Lee and J. R. Cary, "Longitudinal Cooling of Non neutral Plasma by Energy Exchange," Phys. Rev E 71, 036406 (2005).
• D. E. Post, D. B. Batchelor, R. B. Bramley, J. R. Cary, R. H. Cohen, P. Colella, S. C. Jardin, "Report of the Fusion Simulation Project Steering Committee," J. Fusion Energy 23 (1), 1 (2004 journal date, but published and copyright 2005).
•  Sides, Scott W., "Hybrid Monte-Carlo/Field-theoretic simulations: Effect of Nematically Ordered Nanoparticles on Block-Copolymer Mesophases", Liquid-Crystal Gordon Conference 2005 (poster session), New London, NH.

2004

• C. Nieter and J. R. Cary, "VORPAL: a versatile plasma simulation code", J. Comp. Phys. 196, 448-472 (2004).
• Dimitre A. Dimitrov, Richard Busby, John Exby, David L. Bruhwiler and John R. Cary, "Secure Web-based invocation of Large-Scale Plasma Simulation Codes," Computer Physics Communications 164 (2004), p. 464-467.
• S. Shasharina, R. Eger, and J. Cary, "Farsight: application for remote visualization", Computer Physics Communications 164 (2004), p. 402-407.
• Ireneuz Szczesniak and John R. Cary, "dxhdf5: a software package for importing HDF5 physics data into OpenDX", Computer Physics Communications 164 (2004), p. 365-369.
• S. Shasharina, R. Eger, and J. Cary, "Data grid for fusion simulations and experiments", Computer Physics Communications 164 (2004), p. 134-137.
• P. Messmer and D.L. Bruhwiler, "An electrostatic solver for the VORPAL code", Computer Physics Communications 164 (2004), p. 118.
• C.R. Sovinec, A.H. Glasser, T.A. Gianakon, D.C. Barnes, R.A. Nevel, S.E. Kruger, S.J. Plimpton, A. Tarditi, M.S. Chu, and the NIMROD Team, "Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics with high-order finite elements", Journal of Computational Physics 195 (2004) p. 355.
• R. H. Cohen, A. Friedman, S. M. Lund, A. W. Molvik, E. P. Lee, T.Azevedo, J.-L. Vay, P. Stoltz, and S. Veitzer, "Electron-cloud simulation and theory for high-current heavy-ion beams", Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 7 (2004), p.123201.
• P. H. Stoltz, S. A. Veitzer, R. H. Cohen, A. W. Molvik, and J.-L. Vay, "Simulation of heavy ion induced electron yield at grazing incidence", Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 7 (2004), p. 103201.
• T. Hellsten, T. Johnson, J. Carlsson, L.-G. Eriksson, J. Hedin, M. Laxåback, and M. Mantsinen, "Effects of finite drift orbit width and RF-induced spatial transport on plasma heated by ICRH", Nuclear Fusion 44 (2004), p. 892.
• Cameron G.R. Geddes, Csaba Toth, Jeroen van Tilborg, Eric Esarey, Carl B. Schroeder, David L. Bruhwiler, Chet Nieter, John R. Cary, and Wim Leemans, "High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding", Nature 431 (2004), p. 538-541.
• K. Sonnad and J. R. Cary, "Finding a nonlinear lattice with improved integrability using Lie transform perturbation theory," Phys. Rev. ST/AB (2004) in review.
• Peter Messmer and David L. Bruhwiler, "A parallel electrostatic solver for the VORPAL code," Comp. Phys. Comm. (2004), accepted.
• Arvind S. Krishna, Nanbor Wang, Balachandran Natarajan, Anniruddha Gokhale, Douglas C. Schmidt, and Gautam Thaker", CCMPerf: a benchmarking tool for CORBA component model implementations", In Proceedings of the 10th Real-time Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS'04) Toronto, CA May 2004, IEEE.
• Nanbor Wang, Chris Gill, Douglas C. Schmidt, and Venkita Subramonian, "Configuring real-time aspects in component middleware", In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'04) Agia Napa, Cyprus Oct 2004.
• Nanbor Wang and Christopher Gill, "Improving real-time system configuration via a QoS-aware CORBA component model", In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Software Technology Track, Distributed Object and Component-based Software Systems Minitrack, HICSS 2004 Honolulu, HW Jan 2004, HICSS.
• Venkita Subramonian, Liang-Jui Shen, Christopher Gill, and Nanbor Wang, "The design and performance of dynamic and static configuration mechanisms in component middleware for distributed real-time and embedded systems", In The 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) Lisbon, Portugal Dec 2004.
• A.S. Johnson, V. Serbo, M. Turri, B. Anathan, and D.A. Alexander, "Interactive data analysis on the grid using globus 3 and jas3", In Proceeding of the 2004 Conference for Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 04) Interlaken, Switzerland 2004.
• Alexei V. Fedotov, Ilan Ben-Zvi, David L. Bruhwiler, Yu. Eidelman, Vladimir N. Litvinenko, N. Malitsky, A. Sidorin I. Meshkov, A. Smirnov, and G. Trubnikov, "Electron cooling dynamics for RHIC", In Proc. 33rd ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop 2004.
• David L. Bruhwiler, Richard Busby, Alexei V. Fedotov, Ilan Ben-Zvi, John R. Cary, Peter Stoltz, Alexey Burov, Vladimir N. Litvinenko, Peter Messmer, Dan T. Abell, and Chet Nieter, "Direct simulation of friction forces for heavy ions interacting with a warm magnetized electron distribution", In Proc. 33rd ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop 2004.
• P. Messmer, "Electromagnetic modeling of dusty plasmas", In Proc. PARA04 Workshop on State-of-the-Art in Scientific Computing. LNCS 2004.
• Cameron G.R. Geddes, Csaba Toth, Jeroen van Tilborg, Eric Esarey, Carl B. Schroeder, David L. Bruhwiler, John R. Cary, and Wim Leemans, "Laser guiding at relativistic intensities and wakefield particle acceleration in plasma channels", In Proceedings of the 11th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop Stony Brook, NY 2004.
• P. Messmer, D.L. Bruhwiler, J.R. Cary, and D.A. Dimitrov, "Ion acceleration and wave generation by overdense laser-plasma interaction", In Proceedings of the 11th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop Stony Brook, NY 2004.
• Dimitre A. Dimitrov, David L. Bruhwiler, John R. Cary, Peter Messmer, Cameron G.R. Geddes, Wim Leemans, and Eric Esarey, "Particle-in-cell simulations of intense laser pulses coupling into plasma channels", In Proceedings of the 11th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop Stony Brook, NY 2004.
•  Svetlana G. Shasharina, Nanbor Wang, John R. Cary, "Grid Service for Visualization and Analysis of Remote Fusion Data", In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE 2004) pages 34-43 Honolulu, Hawaii 2004.
• S.E. Kruger, D.D. Schnack, E.D. Held, D.D. Whyte, and C.R. Sovinec, "Simulations of a DIII-D plasma disruption with the NIMROD code", In Proceedings of Invited Papers, 20th International Atomic Energy Agency Conference, Vilamora, Portugal volume CD-ROM pages FILE TH/P2-25 Vilamoura, Portugal 2004, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna.

2003

• David L. Bruhwiler, Dimitre A. Dimitrov, John R. Cary, Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans and Rodolfo E. Giacone, "Particle-in-cell simulations of tunneling ionization effects in plasma-based accelerators," Phys. Plasmas 10 (2003), p. 2022. (Invited)
• P.H. Stoltz, et al, "Numerical Simulation of Secondary Electron Emission in the High Current Experiment", Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 6, 054701, 2003.

2002

• P. H. Stoltz, J. R. Cary, G. Penn, and J. Wurtele, "Efficiency of a Boris-like integration scheme with spatial stepping," Phys. Rev. ST/AB 5, 094001,1-9 (2002).
• P.H. Stoltz, et al, "Efficiency of a Boris-like Integration Scheme with Spatial Stepping", Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 5, 094001, 2002.

2001

• David L. Bruhwiler, Rodolfo E. Giacone, John R. Cary, John P. Verboncoeur, Peter Mardahl, Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans and Brad Shadwick, "Particle-in-cell simulations of plasma accelerators and electron-neutral collisions," Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 4, 101302 (2001).
• P.H. Stoltz and B.V. Oliver, "Growth rates of the m=0 mode for Bennett equilibria with varying radial density and temperature profiles", Physics of Plasmas 8 (6), 2001.

2000

• S.G. Shasharina, D.L. Bruhwiler and J.R. Cary,  "Nonlinear Optimization in the C++ Beam Optics Code" European Particle Accelerator Conference (Vienna, 2000).